The only way to track clicks from your Facebook wall links is to use a URL shortening service for each external link that you post to your wall. Professional marketers never sent traffic directly to their website or landing page.
However, if it's a direct link to a resource like a document or PDF or JPG, to track this link when using Google Analytics you may need some custom tracking methods setup on your server to track that particular link to your resource. If you’re currently using classic Google Analytics, you need to update to Google Universal Analytics within your Google Universal Analytics account before you can set up tracking pixels with Eventbrite. The more clicks you get on your AdF.ly links, the more money you earn. For example, if your source is "newsletter", the medium should not be "email newsletter".
A name everyone instantly trusts when they see the URL. Instead, they create a “tracking link” that will act as a redirect to the actual landing page or website URL.
Your brand, your name–it’s carried across into the very links that you are sharing. This helps let people know they aren’t spam. As long as your custom domain relates to your brand and you use it consistently, people will know that the links you are sharing have been vetted by you. With Bitly, you can track how many clicks your shortened links receive, plus bookmark and organize your links on your own personalized Bitly dashboard.
Conversion Tracking Try a Professional account to track sales, email signups, page visits and more with our easy to use conversion tracking option. You can use it for one simple link and shorten as usual, or you can shorten a group of links into one shortened link. Our thanks also go out to our friends at GoDaddy and in Montenegro for help with the domain.Most of us have probably at least a few times seen some short but odd looking URLs that start with one of the following: Sometimes one of these URLs will be followed by what seems like a random set of characters. However, standard analytics tools only do a great job in describing activities within the website without dealing too much with your links outside your website. Many sites that accept user-submitted content block links, however, to certain domains in order to cut down on spam, and for this reason, known URL redirection services are often themselves added to spam blacklists. TinyURL: This shortener use to be all over the internet; however, lately it has died down. All you need to do is register the domain and make a few changes to the domain configuration. Personally, I use Hootsuite for all of my Twitter’ing so I don’t have the need to go out and shorten it separately. As an example, their tracking system could have a macro for ad placement that you use to replace "AFF_SUB", and another macro for traffic source that you use to replace "SOURCE". Example: South Park Studios uses cart.mn to recreate, in a shortened form, the name of one of its most well known characters. It is stored in your My Sailthru Settings under Setup > Domains. Start selling tickets in minutes with a simple set-up process. Its popularity influenced the creation of at least 100 similar websites,[9] although most are simply domain alternatives. These are all exposed in the
using rel=shortlink. Reports are availabe in .csv format for use with Microsoft Excel or your favorite spreadsheet program. I also worry that because shorteners are essentially open proxies of HTTP they’ll be exploited by spammers and malware distributors to the point where businesses, anti-phishing, and anti-virus services will be forced to block them. The permalinks you use in WordPress can be ideally created to be as short as possible.